Reinventing Education with Khan Academy and AI Class

Join Khan Academy founder Sal Khan and Stanford professors Peter Norvig and Sebastian Thrun discuss the future of technology in education. They are taking your questions live on Google+.

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Education

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• AI Class
• Google+
• Sal Khan
• Peter Norvig
• Sebastian Thrun
• Khan Academy

[kuzniarpawel]

You should definitely start teaching languages. Khan academy style + ability to meet on hangouts with native speakers would be a killing feature.

[dileepgalt]

Happy that I am a part of this change. I am doing two classes AI and DB and the lectures are 10 times better than what our professors can teach. The Khan academy is also very wonderful, I am not even sleeping at nights, to learn something, get badges and post them on my fb :)

[violaclown]

At several places in the discussion there is mention of the fact that people want a credential of some sort or their learning. In fact we already do it. Advanced Placement is an obvious example. So is the G.E.D. It should be fairly easy to add AP exam offerings. For instance we could have AP Exam Number Theory or AP Differential Equations. We could also use technology to make AP exams more available with respect to both time and place. None of this is hard.

[mistax2k]

so are Peter Norvig and Sebastian Thrun

[frozenstrawbs]

sal is a damn genius

[Aiorral9]

You don't have to feel depressed. I think it's pretty amazing! (btw i know this post is 2 months old) Imagine the implications...it implies that a GREAT percentage of those that have an Internet connection are probably capable of learning and that they want to do so as well! We can gain new insight on what the problems might be and we can gain and give new hope to other people.That is f'n fantastic! These are things that are fun,interesting and important things to discuss.

[sathasiva1885]

I think he was out of jobs so started giving maths tution and thats the kahan academy?

[sathasiva1885]

Stop using bunch,bunch,bunch forr everything under the sun.Bunch of flowers yes but not bunch of books or bunch of guys...

[return2Quran]

Through research funds. Research is already a big source of funding for graduate students. A part of research fund can be dedicated to teaching staff.

[kuashio]

45:10 lol

[rodgjohn]

Learning in a social context and self paced learning are a contradiction in terms.

Its true, the concept of merit badges and other socially facilitated feedback are grossly underestimated, particularly for boys